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Experiments on Enlarging a Lexical Ontology

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This paper presents two simple experiments performed in order to enlarge the coverage of PULO, a Lexical Ontology, based and aligned with the Princeton WordNet. The first experiment explores the triangulation of the Galician, Catalan and Castillian wordnets, with translation dictionaries from the Apertium project. The second, explores Dicionário-Aberto entries, in order to extract synsets from its definitions. Although similar approaches were already applied for different languages, this document aims at documenting their results for the PULO case.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    This article will use the term variant to refer to one of the synonyms of a synset.

  2. 2.

    Orthography prior to the 1990 agreement, that was officiated in 2008 by the Portuguese Government, and still being, progressively, adopted in Portugal.

  3. 3.

    Text Encoding Initiative XML schema, that includes notation to encode different kind of resources from simple books to corpora or dictionaries.

  4. 4.

    This distinction is, of course, of the responsibility of the original lexicographer.

  5. 5.

    In these and next examples, the authors decided not to translate the variant itself, as a direct translation will lose part of the cultural/usage meaning.

  6. 6.

    Given the obtained accuracy and the lack of human resources for a through validation, the authors decided to include the obtained variants without further analysis.

  7. 7.

    Given the low accuracy and the small number of proposed variants, the authors decided to perform a manual validation prior to their incorporation into PULO.

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Thanks to Nuno Carvalho for the proofreading. This work has been partially supported by FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia within the Project Scope UID/CEC/00319/2013.

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    Alberto Simões

  2. Centro Algoritmi, Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal

    Alberto Simões & José João Almeida

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  2. Universidade do Porto - DCC, Porto, Portugal

    José-Paulo Leal

  3. Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal

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Simões, A., Almeida, J.J. (2015). Experiments on Enlarging a Lexical Ontology. In: Sierra-Rodríguez, JL., Leal, JP., Simões, A. (eds) Languages, Applications and Technologies. SLATE 2015. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 563. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27653-3_5

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